DefenseNews

What to know about the Putin-Trump summit in Alaska

August 12, 2025
The U.S.-Russia summit in Alaska is happening at a site where East meets West — quite literally — in a place familiar to both countries as a Cold War front line of missile defense, radar outposts and intelligence gathering. Whether it can lead to a deal to produce peace in Ukraine more than 3 1/2 years after Moscow’s invasion remains to be seen. Here’s what to know about the meeting…
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GamingNews

Civilization 7 Player Trends and Performance

August 12, 2025
We’re now half a year since the troubled launch of Civilization 7, which has fewer players on Steam than both Civilization 6 and the 15-year-old Civilization 5. But according to the boss of Take-Two, Civ 7 is projected to meet the company’s initial internal…
GamingNews

Pokémon Card Promotion Ends Early at McDonald's

August 12, 2025
McDonald’s has announced the early end of a Happy Meal Pokémon card promotion in Japan, after the chain was swamped by fans buying up dozens of burgers just to extract the packs found within them. Photos and videos of the ensuing chaos posted to social media show arguments among customers ignoring the chain’s limit of five meals per person, countless untouched Happy Meals dumped by…
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ComputersNews

Microsoft faces lawsuit over Windows 10’s end of support

August 12, 2025
We’re now two months from the planned end of support date for Windows 10, and it seems tempers are running high as tensions continue to build. A man from Southern California filed a lawsuit against Microsoft last week, according to one news report. The reason for the…
ComputersNews

Former Intel CEO Barrett says customers should bail out Intel

August 12, 2025
Is there a way that Intel can be saved? Former Intel chief executive Craig Barrett thinks so, and it isn’t the way the company’s former board members suggest. Intel should have a number of its customers invest a total of $40 billion in the company to ensure a steady supply of chips, the company’s former chief executive wrote over the weekend. Barrett’s comments come as current chief…
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AI & RoboticsNews

OpenAI’s GPT-5 rollout is not going smoothly

August 12, 2025
Updated Friday August 8, 5:21 pm ET: shortly after this post’s publication, OpenAI co-founder and CEO Sam Altman announced the company would restore access to GPT-4o and other old models for selected users, admitting the GPT-5 launch was “more bumpy than we hoped…
AI & RoboticsNews

OpenAI is editing its GPT-5 rollout on the fly — here’s what’s changing in ChatGPT

August 12, 2025
OpenAI’s launch of its most advanced AI model GPT-5 last week has been a stress test for the world’s most popular chatbot platform with 700 million weekly active users — and so far, OpenAI is openly struggling to keep users happy and its service running smoothly. The new flagship model GPT-5 — available in four variants of different speed and intelligence (regular, mini, nano, and pro)…
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